“A Global Film Feast” (Clayton Rd and Lindbergh) (Clayton Rd 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 22nd Annual St. Jewish Film Louis June 4-8, 2017 Cinema • Frontenac Plaza Landmark

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Advertising Supplement to the St. Louis Jewish Light Opening Day Double Feature Sunday, June 4 ON THE MAP FANNY’S JOURNEY 4:00 PM 7:00 PM English/Hebrew with English Subtitles French with English Subtitles Director: Dani Menkin Director: Lola Doillon Documentary: 85 Minutes DocuDrama: 94 Minutes “Miracle on Hardwood” Suspenseful, compelling, moving After beating a dynamic Soviet basketball team, Israeli team captain, 1943. Here is the true story of , exclaimed in American-accented Hebrew, “We are on the Map, exceptional bravery and survival we are staying on the Map, not only in sports, but in everything.” That against overwhelming odds. As war phrase and the Maccabi team, a combination of NBA also-rans is raging in Europe, 13-year-old Fanny and Israeli players, rallied a nation in its David-and-Goliath pursuit of the and her two younger sisters are sent 1977 European Championship. by their parents to a foster home for Featuring interviews with the Jewish children in the French athletes who made history, countryside. As the Germans advance, here is the pulse-pounding Fanny unexpectedly finds herself in action of a high-stakes game charge of a group of 11 young children. Now she must do the combined with an incendiary impossible and lead her little group to the Swiss border in order to political situation. save all their lives.

Sponsored by: Kuhn Foundation, Sponsored by: Eileen & Larry Schechter Opening Day Howard N. Lesser Films $15 each Introduction: Irl Solomon, Docent St. Louis Save by buying Introduction: Sandy Pomerantz, Holocaust Museum and Learning Center tickets to Attorney, Past President of the 4pm & 7pm JCC and Gold Medal Winner in for $25 Basketball in the 1965 World in Israel Cover photo is from Fanny’s Journey

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Weekday film tickets: $12 in advance • $13 at the door Co-Chairs. . . . Marilyn Brown, Jeffrey Korn Students 16 and under: $10 Opening Day • $8 Weekdays Programs. . . . Marilyn Brown, Jay Goldstein, Ronnie Gross, . . . . Natalie Kauffman, Hessie Needle, Marlene Sachs Special Events. . . . Judy Plocker, Paula Sigel, Leon Kravitz, SAVE on opening day films! Felicia Wertz Both films only $25 (regularly $15 each) Film Selection. . . . Natalie Kauffman SAVE on a four-pack of weekday films: Only $44! Target Marketing/ Organization Liaison. . . . Janet Weinberg, Hessie Needle, Patsy Spector Tickets available at the J Box Office, online at Ticket Sales. . . . Judy Barnett, Carolyn Schechter brownpapertickets.com or call the Ticket Hotline: Jewish Film Society. . . . Natalie Kauffman Raffle. . . . Kent Hirshfelder, Jeffrey Korn, Steve Schwedt 314.442.3179 Cultural Arts Staff. . . . Zelda Sparks, Mary Jane Kambal Please note new weekday film times.

2 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Monday, June 5 Double Feature 1:00 PM SABENA HIJACKING: BANG: THE BERT MY VERSION BERNS STORY BREAKFAST AT INA’S THE LAST BLINTZ 4:00 PM 7:00 PM

USA USA Israel USA English English Arabic/English/French/Hebrew with English Director: Mercedes Kane Director: Dori Berinstein English Subtitles Director: Brett Berns and Bob Sarles Documentary: 50 Minutes Documentary: 30 Minutes Director: Rani Saar Documentary: 94 Minutes DocuDrama: 98 Minutes

An affectionate homage An American Captivating Music meets the mob Ina Pinkney is a Chicago legend Dream-Come-True story Based on newly-found audio While not a household name, of the tastiest kind. Known as The Café Edison (aka The Polish recordings of Captain Reginald Bert Berns was the songwriter the “Breakfast Queen,” she fed Tea Room) is the story of a Levy, this is the true story of the and producer behind many hit Chicagoans for 33 years – first, multi-generational, big-hearted, hijacking of Sabena flight 571 singles in the 1960s (“Twist and out of a small bakery and, most mom-and-pop family business from Vienna to Tel Aviv on May Shout,” “Piece of My Heart,” recently, from her beloved that is tragically and prematurely 8, 1972. Holding passengers “Under the Boardwalk” and breakfast nook in the West Loop. coming to an end to make room and crew hostage for over 30 “Brown-Eyed Girl”). He also Surviving polio as an infant, Ina for a five-star, white tablecloth hours, four armed terrorists launched the careers of legends now suffers the effects of post- restaurant. It’s also about threatened to blow up the plane such as Van Morrison and Neil polio syndrome which caused her gentrification and all-consuming if Israel refused to release Diamond and produced some to make the difficult decision to greed. It’s an impassioned plea over 300 Palestinian prisoners. of the greatest soul music ever close the doors of her celebrated for “progress” that honors the Weaving archival material with made. Born in the Bronx to establishment at the end of 2013. past, protects the future, and a reenactment of the events, Russian-Jewish immigrants, his The film chronicles the last days preserves the heart and culture of the film includes Levy’s account meteoric rise from obscurity, and of the restaurant as she and her our great cities…before there’s as well as the testimony of the heightened emotional pitch staff serve the final meals. nothing left. passengers, interviews with a of his music, were propelled by a surviving hijacker and Benjamin chronic heart condition that cut Introduction: Ina will be signing Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and his life tragically short. copies of her book “Ina’s Kitchen: Shimon Peres. Memories and Recipes from the Sponsored by: Barnes Jewish Breakfast Queen,” which will be Sponsored by: Jonas Weil Hospital, Linda & Nathan Cohen, available for purchase Judith Gall, Elaine & Jeffrey Korn, Introduction: Linda Levy Lipschitz, Harvey Wallace & Madeleine Elkins daughter of pilot Captain Reginald Levy-Live via Skype from Israel Introduction: Live via Skype Brett Berns, Film Director and son of Bert Berns, along with Bruce Bramoweth, KDHX Radio host, and The Caesars who will Ina Pinkney perform live.

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MEMBER BENEFITS • Films are free to all Jewish Film Society Members • $36 for individual • Guest tickets $10 per film • $54 for a couple • 2017/18 Film dates 9/17 10/22, 12/3, 3/5, 4/1, 5/13 • $18 for students • Membership is tax deductible • See back page on how to join 3 Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314.442.3179 Tuesday, June 6 Wednesday, June 7 PAST LIFE GERMANS & JEWS THE WOMEN’S BALCONY THE PICKLE RECIPE 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 1:00 PM

Israel USA Israel USA English/Hebrew/German/Polish English/German with Hebrew with English Subtitles English with English subtitles English Subtitles Director: Emil Ben-Shimon Director: Michael Manasseri Director: Avi Nesher Director: Janina Quint Feature: 98 Minutes Feature: 97 Minutes Feature: 110 Minutes Documentary: 76 minutes Inspired by true events Reckoning, reconciliation, Tradition vs. A sweet pickle of a comedy! In the late 1970s, two daughters transformation the power of women Joey Miller is a cash-strapped of Holocaust survivors – Today, Europe’s fastest growing When the women’s balcony in a party emcee who agrees to go combative journalist Nana, and Jewish population, including Sephardic Orthodox synagogue along with a scheme hatched her younger sister Sephi, a young Israelis, is in Berlin. collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife by his conniving uncle (David soprano and aspiring composer – is considered one of in a coma and the rabbi in shock, Paymer). He must steal his try to unravel a mystery that has the most democratic societies in the congregation falls into crisis. grandmother’s (St. Louisan Lynn shadowed their whole lives. After the world, assuming the position Charismatic young Rabbi David Cohen) most prized possession a performance in West Berlin, of moral leader of Europe as appears to be a savior after the – her famous secret dill pickle Sephi is accosted by a Polish Germans embrace hundreds accident, but he slowly starts recipe in order to sell it for a woman who angrily accuses her of thousands of refugees. pushing his fundamentalist ways small fortune. Naturally, the plan father of murder. As guilty secrets This development couldn’t and tries to take control. This goes horribly wrong, but the and troubling revelations are have been imagined in 1945. tests the women’s friendships lesson Joey learns in the process dredged up, the film boldly charts This film explores Germany’s and creates a gender rift between is priceless – there is nothing dangerous emotional territory, transformation as a society, from the community’s women and more important in life than your still very much part of the Israeli silence about the Holocaust to men. A rousing, good-natured family, except maybe…. collective subconscious. facing it head on. tale that is both rebellious and respectful in spirit. Sponsored by: The Gatesworth at Introduction: Burt Newman, Introduction: Paula Hanssen, One McKnight Place Attorney, and Holocaust Museum Associate Professor of German Sponsored by: Margie and Merle Speaker & International Studies, Webster Horowitz Introduction: Ellen Futterman, University Editor, St. Louis Jewish Light Introduction: Maharat Rory Picker Neiss, Executive Director Jewish Community Relations Council

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• Call the Jewish Film Festival Hotline to order tickets by phone 314.442.3179. • Order tickets online at brownpapertickets.com • Tickets may be purchased at the box office in the J’s Staenberg Family Complex – Arts & Education Building during business hours. • Individual film tickets are available at the J through June 2. After that, tickets can only be purchased at the box office of the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema beginning one hour before each film. • Seating for all films is on a first-come, first-served basis. • Ticket are non-exchangeable and non-refundable. • Due to circumstances beyond our control, films are subject to change.

4 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Wednesday, June 7 Thursday, June 8 Double Feature 4:00 PM A GRAIN OF TRUTH KEEP QUIET 7:00 PM 1:00 PM JOE’S VIOLIN THE MAESTRO: IN SEARCH OF THE LOST MUSIC

USA / England/ English English/Italian/French with English/Polish with English/Hungarian with Director: Kahane Cooperman English Subtitles English subtitles English subtitles Documentary: 24 minutes Director: Alexandre Valenti Director: Borys Lankosz Director: Sam Blair and Documentary: 74 Minutes Feature: 112 Minutes Joseph Martin Documentary: 92 Minutes The power of music Heart-rending, moving Reality vs. fantasy Regret or repentance? In 1946, 23-year-old Holocaust The astonishing story of A washed-up prosecutor is True convert or charlatan? survivor Joseph Feingold Francesco Lotoro, a professional brought in to investigate the As vice president of Hungary’s exchanged a carton of cigarettes for pianist who is determined to brutal murder of a well-known far-right Jobbik party, Csanad a violin at a flea market in Germany. preserve the music created social activist. The trail of victims Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic Seventy years later, Joe donates clandestinely by inmates in grows, the killer remains elusive, rhetoric and Holocaust denials the instrument to a schoolgirl in concentration camps. For over and clues point to a mysterious and became a member of the the Bronx who has come through 20 years this quiet hero has connection with historical myths European Parliament. But his life her own tribulations. The friendship scoured Europe to find the aging of blood libel. Those murders was upended when he learned that blossoms between this unlikely composers before they’re gone prompt a wave of anti-Semitic his maternal grandparents pair is a wonderful testament to and record their music. He has hysteria in the town. In his were Jewish and his beloved the power of music to sustain us brought to life over 4000 scores, investigation the prosecutor must grandmother an Auschwitz survivor through the most difficult of trials, including symphonies, operas, wrestle with the painful tangle who had “kept quiet” about her and the power that music has to folk songs, liturgical works, swing of Polish-Jewish relations and faith. The film depicts Szegedi’s draw us together across seemingly and Roma music representing the real findings of his work - three-year journey to embrace vast gulfs. another way Hitler failed to that roots of some legends are his newfound religion. But is destroy “non-Aryan” culture. fantasy, and contain not a grain his transformation genuine? An Sponsored by: Nancy & Ken of truth. absolutely MUST-SEE film! Kranzberg Sponsored by: Gail and Louis Glaser Introduction: Andrew Rehfeld Introduction: Maureen Byrne, Ph.D., President and CEO Jewish Director of Community Programs, Introduction: Michael Kahn, Federation of St. Louis St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Author and Trial Attorney and Violinist Octavia Sydnor, In Unison Graduate Fellow

General Information

• Opening Day Films $15/person or both for $25. • Student tickets for ages 16 and under $10 for Opening Day Films & $8 for weekday films. • Buy a FOUR-PACK and save – four weekday films for $44. • Films and programs will start promptly at the identified start time. • Mail orders for individual tickets must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope and must be received by May 25. NO EXCEPTIONS. • All June films at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema –$12 when purchased by June 2 and $13 thereafter. Student tickets $10 Opening Day & $8 weekdays (ages 16 and under). • Festival-goers are encouraged to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the film program. In the event of a sellout, late arriving ticket-holders cannot be guaranteed a seat.

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314.442.3179 5 Thursday, June 8 Summer Movies at the J LAUGH LINES BEN-GURION, EPILOGUE Sunday, July 16 Sunday, August 20 4:00 PM 7:00 PM MONKEY BUSINESS: THE OPERATION WEDDING CURIOUS ADVENTURES 4:00 PM OF GEORGE’S CREATORS 4:00 PM Israel Israel/France/Germany USA Israel Hebrew with English subtitles English/Hebrew with English English and Hebrew/Russian/ Director: Pini Eden English Subtitles Director: Ema Ryan Yamazaki Latvian with English Subtitles Feature: 94 Minutes Director: Yariv Mozer Documentary: 77 Minutes Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov Documentary: 70 minutes Documentary: 62 minutes

Unexpected plot twists & turns Sharp, articulate, amusing The birth of the world’s They cracked the Iron Curtain In this heartwarming dramedy Recently discovered, never- most popular primate Leningrad, 1970. A group about families, love and the art before-seen interview footage of Narrated by Sam Waterston, of young Jewish dissidents of staying young while growing Ben-Gurion is interwoven with this film chronicles the story plots to hijack an empty small old, we meet Hannah. When she additional material of meetings of George’s creators, Hans and passenger plane and escape learns that her beloved husband, with foreign leaders, a speech in Margret Rey. From fleeing the from the USSR. Caught by the Froike, is dying, she decides they Israel’s Parliament and birthday Nazis on self-made bicycles to KGB a few steps from boarding, should die together. However, celebrations. The film is an ode encounters with exotic animals they were sentenced to years in Froike and his granddaughter to a great leader who viewed in , the Reys lived lives of the gulag, with two sentenced scheme to give Hannah a new simplicity as a virtue even as adventure that are reflected in the to death. Forty-five years later, lease on life. Full of witty dialogue he strove for giant goals. It is pages of the popular children’s through a collage of intimate – “What’s to like about old age, 1968 and he is 82 years old, book series, first created 75 interviews, rare archival footage, your favorite foods are out, sex five years before his death. He years ago. The film brilliantly and reenactment, the filmmaker is just science fiction” – this film lives in his secluded home in the interweaves archival footage and reveals the compelling story! proves that youth is more than desert, removed from all political interviews with them, their friends Leaders of the group were just about one’s age, it is a state discourse, which allows him a and experts, along with animated considered “heroes” in the West of mind. unique hindsight perspective on sequences in a style inspired by but “terrorists” in the Soviet the Zionist enterprise. the world of Curious George. Union. Introduction: Dr. George Grossberg, Professor Sponsored by: Diane Fredman, Sponsored by: Lee Bohm, Fox Family Introduction: Barry Rosenberg, and Director of Geriatric Ronnie & Ellen Gross Foundation Professor of Practice, Washington Psychiatry in the Department University, former CEO of the of Psychiatry at Saint Louis Introduction: Robert A. Cohn, Introduction: Lisa Greening, Jewish Federation of St. Louis University School of Medicine Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Executive Director Ready Readers

Steering Committee Co-Sponsoring Organizations Susy Alias Natalie Kauffman Larry Schechter American Jewish Committee Midwest Jewish Congress Barbara Ast Susie Koch Steve Schwedt Anti Defamation League Miriam Foundation Benita Boxerman Jeffrey Korn Paula Sigel Bais Abraham Congregation Na’Amat USA St. Louis Council Marilyn Brown Leon Kravitz Bea Sorkin B’nai Amoona Sisterhood National Council of Jewish Women - Central Reform Congregation St. Louis Section Bob Cohn Harvey Lehrer Patsy Spector Congregation Shaare Emeth New Mt. Sinai Cemetery Assoc. Oscar Goldberg Fred Mackler Hillie Ullman Dept. of Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Nishmah/Sharsherat Tamie Goldenhersh Hessie Needle Janet Weinberg Languages & Cultures, Washington Ready Readers Jay Goldstein Lois Perryman Felicia Wertz University in St. Louis Shaving Israel Martin Gordon Judy Plocker Karen Yoffie Harris-Newman Fund of Women’s Auxiliary Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community Ronnie Gross Madelon Price Foundation for Jewish Aged St. Louis County Library Foundation Kent Hirschfelder Marlene Sachs International Institute’s Festival of Nations St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Women’s Auxiliary for Jewish Aged Learning Center Jewish Federation of Southern IL St. Louis Jewish Light J Associates St. Louis Rabbinical Association Jewish Community Relations Council Temple Emanuel JPAT Jewish Parents and Children Traditional Congregation of Creve Coeur Jewish Women International United Hebrew Congregation Kol Rinah Sisterhood Young Israel of St. Louis 6 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

Oscar Howard N. Lesser Golden Globe Josephine and Richard Weil Diane Fredman Dr. Ronnie and Ellen Gross Kuhn Foundation

Red Carpet Lee Bohm Margie and Merle Horowitz Sima and Phil Needleman Linda and Nathan Cohen Elaine and Jeffrey Korn Eileen and Larry Schechter Fox Family Foundation Harvey Kornblum Foundation Harvey Wallace and Madeleine Elkins Judith Gall Ken and Nancy Kranzberg Jonas Weil Gail and Louis Glaser

Two Thumbs Up American Israel Public Affairs Committee Eileen Schneider Edelman Louis Myers B’nai B’rith St. Louis Missouri Lodge Irene Fox and Floyd Emert Sanford and Rosalind Neuman

Jerry and Pam Sherman Brown Wilma and Harvey Gerstein Mary and Sandy Pomerantz The Delmar Gardens Family Kim and Steve Goldenberg Nancy and Jerry Raskas Gladys K. Crown Foundation Terry and Harvey Hieken Heschel and Adinah Raskas Carol and Jay Goldstein Nancy F. Kalishman Joann Raskas Sam Goldstein Natalie and Al Kauffman Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Jennifer and Jonathan Deutsch Merle and Richard Linkemer Ultra-Color Corporation

“Senior Mitzvah” Sponsors Helping seniors of limited resources to attend films Anonymous Linda and Sylvan Holtzman Jake and Leslie Reby Barbara and Dan Bindler Tannie Lewin Fund Rindskopf Roth Funeral Chapel-Mickey Iris and Larry Buffen John and Diane Kalishman and Norman Roth Joe Burstein Phyllis and Steve Kamenetzky Rubin Family Foundation Paul and Elissa Cahn Alan and Claudia Korn & Family Monte and Julie Sandler Dr. Edward and Marla Cohen Harvey & Nancy Lehrer Ruth and Alvin Siteman Caring & Sharing Program, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Lewis A. Levey Todd Siwak and Gianna Jacobson Central Reform Congregation Joy Levin Patsy and Gershon Spector Stanley and Rochelle Ferdman Lucy Lopata Transportation Fund Dr. Cary and Helen Stolar Dr. Norman and Naomi Fishman Ann Lux USA Mortgage Ed and Dorette Goldberg Sue Matlof Leslie and Harvey Wolf Milton Hieken and Barbara Barenholtz Judy and Stan Plocker June and Alvin Wolff Sponsor list reflects those received prior to our print deadline.

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Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314.442.3179 7 2017 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Tickets: brownpapertickets.com or call JFF Ticket Hotline: 314.442.3179 More information & trailers: stljewishfilmfestival.org Films # of Tickets Amount Films at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. July and August films will be shown at the J’s Staenberg Family Complex –Arts & Education Building

Sun 6/4 On the Map 4:00pm Single tickets $15 Sun 6/4 Fanny’s Journey 7:00pm Single tickets $15 SAVE: Both films for only $25! Both Films for $25 Weekday tickets $12/advance • $13 at door • $8 Students (16 & under) Mon 6/5 Breakfast at Ina’s & The Last Blintz 1:00pm Mon 6/5 Sabena Hijacking 4:00pm Mon 6/5 Bang: The Bert Berns Story 7:00pm Tue 6/6 Past Life 1:00pm Tue 6/6 Germans and Jews 4:00pm Tue 6/6 The Women’s Balcony 7:00pm Wed 6/7 The Pickle Recipe 1:00pm Wed 6/7 Joe’s Violin & The Maestro 4:00pm Wed 6/7 A Grain of Truth 7:00pm Thu 6/8 Keep Quiet 1:00pm Thu 6/8 Laugh Lines 4:00pm Thu 6/8 Ben Gurion, Epilogue 7:00pm Summer Films Sun 7/16 Monkey Business 4:00pm at the J Sun 8/20 Operation Wedding 4:00pm at the J

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